The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-07-27
HOPES FOR THE FARMERS.
some Considerations that Tighten tho
Hearts of the AgricuIturaIists.

farmers when they sec the necessity ol
abandoning old methods, and adopting
new ones; tho introduction OF horse
reapers, mowers, and plows that will OK.
pedite cultivation and cconomize labor,
shows that we are in Il transition state
preparing to reduce the area Of cotton
planting, and increase tho area of grain,
clover, grass and other crops; in short,
we are fixing up for diversified farming.
This is what l have been accommodating
to all our farmers for tho last tlftcen
years in all my articles in The Southern
Cultivator, and other agricultural Jour
nails. | am glad to see the change has
begun, and in the near future, we will
see our Southern farms once more tcem-
ing with fine crops of corn, wheat and
oats, rs we'll as clover and grass, and
fine stock of all kinds of our own raising,
making us as VIC should be- a sclf-SuD-
porting, prosperous set of farmcrs. We
have served too long time at making
cotton, which has impoverished the
| farmers and made rich the merchants
and cotton kic gs let us now turn over
Il new leaf, and farm for our own good
and profit. We have the country, the
lands and the climate adapted to the
most diversified system of farming OF
any other country; all needed, is the
viii, to make it $3.50 let it be so. Ag-
rlcultural machinery is now to most of
our Southern farmers, and especially to
the negro, the laDorcr we have mostly to
rely on; but still there are many of them
sufficiently Intelligent with little train
ing 10 make them use them advantage
| ouSly undCr the supervision of the own
or. Our young farmers should drive
| Their own roapcrS and mowers; but with
| old farmers who have not sons to use
them, they are dependent on hirclings,
| but II possible they should be operated
under their supervision, for llko all ma
chlncry they must be used with judg-
meut and care. But when there is Il
will, there is a way and grain and grass
crops will soon teach us the right way of
| using machinery. Some II or IS years
ago, before the cotton craze seized our
| people, grain and grass WAS mostly the
cropa OF this section of country, but
then the cradle was the harvester; Il few
| rcnpcrS were being introduced at that
time; heavy cumbersome things, killing
| to the animals that worked to them, Dnd
| many soon became wrecked from thcir
own lncilcicncy. SO they did not take
with the farmers, being also high-prccd; :;
wy Io9' ''cnl lIoill %l'o 10 'P-v' W IN
o''V 'no moving attachment; thcy are
hoT ili"'ic lISilVcr' more easily handled,
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